Two decades after he was elected as Australia's prime minister, John Howard has some advice for the government of 2016.
What people are interested in is what the government plans to do, not that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull got his job by usurping Tony Abbott, he told ABC TV.
The government needs to press on with tax reform and at some point will have to revisit industrial relations, he added.
And the main beneficiary of Senate voting reforms will likely be the Australian Greens, which is why they are campaigning so vigorously in favour of these changes.
Mr Howard, who celebrates 20 years since the 1996 election at a dinner in parliament house on Wednesday night, said his operating principle was to keep Labor in opposition, and all Liberal supporters should be reminded of the validity of that principle.
He said any government can be defeated.
"This idea that there is no unlosable or unwinnable election is no longer valid," he said.
